Chinese shoppers will soon be able to make their groceries come when called as a new convenience store on wheels takes off! The world’s first unmanned-convenience-supermarket-on-wheels, is called Moby-Mart, and is currently in the prototyping stage, its Chinese designers spruiking it as the mini-mart of the future. Dubbed by the company as “the simplest shopping […]
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Tickets are on sale now for the AACS Gala Award Night, celebrating the achievements of the foremost leaders in our industry. Held annually, the AACS Gala Awards brings together the best in the industry to recognise their contributions within the sector. Last year’s Gala had a record-breaking attendance of almost 600 guests. This event is
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Food and beverage company Lion is looking for innovators and entrepreneurs to join a new start-up accelerator program, which launched this week.
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Mr Yousaf, founder of data gathering and analysis service Kalido, said there’s a lot of room to build on the digital side of C-store sales, and that Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world.
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That’s why C&I Week chose to join the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores in its annual Downunder Study Tour, which this year was held in and around the progressive capital city of Melbourne.
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The Federal Government has backflipped on an announcement that it would stand by its ban on electronic cigarettes, a minute later announcing that there would be a parliamentary inquiry into reviewing the ban. The battery operated devices were banned earlier in the year based on an interim decision by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA). E-cigarettes
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A fight broke out at popular a Redfern convenience store last Friday night, resulting in three hospitalisations and two arrests.
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Online home delivery, click and collect and now pick-up services like Amazon Fresh are all considered as true innovation, when in actual fact they have been around for decades.
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A Missouri man has launched a lawsuit against The Hershey Company over “empty space” in his packet of confectionery. Robert Bratton purchased boxes of Reese’s Pieces and Whoppers at a store in Columbia for $1 each, claiming that he was persuaded to purchase the product based on the size of the box. The lawsuit was
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Customers will be able to pay with a swipe of the hand, using new biometric POS technology at a new C-store launched by 7-Eleven in Korea.
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Coca-Cola Amatil has won 7-Eleven’s Supplier of the Year at a Melbourne ceremony. 7-Eleven Head of Marketing Julie Laycock said suppliers are integral to helping 7-Eleven realise its ambitions. “We set bold shared business goals to deliver growth, which has been achieved,” she said. “The commitment from Coca-Cola Amatil at all levels of our business
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The newly released Federal Budget brought relief for some retailers last night, with a familiar focus on ‘jobs and growth’ marking the Coalition Government’s public strategy. However, with the ongoing strategy to achieve reduced Government debt, retailers face increased taxes on their businesses and as individuals. Australian Retailers Association (ARA) executive director Russell Zimmerman said
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A New Zealand convenience store staff member has had to recover from a serious fright after a daylight armed robbery, the sixth convenience store robbery in the area since April. Two men wearing scarves over their faces and wielding a weapon entered the Tauranga store at 2pm and confronted the employee. Store owner Aman Deep
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